picture not so perfect

My almost 3 year old son has a lot of energy. And when I say a lot I mean A LOT.He’s always been this way. He’s all about extremes – when he’s awake he’s quite Tasmanian Devil like but when he’s asleep he is the most sound peaceful sleeper – there is no in-between.

This can prove to be difficult when you are trying to take a picture of him. Even more difficult when you’re trying to take a picture of him and his sister together.

I take a lot of pictures of my kids. Okay, so a lot may be an understatement. My picture taking of my children probably borders on obscene and maybe even obsessive. But even with all the photo taking, rarely do I have a picture of the two of them together.

With holiday card season right around the corner I figured it was about time to get a good shot of them both to send out. Today, I tried. I tried really hard to get them together. To get them both to look at the camera at the same time. To smile. And look cute. At the same time.

I tried.

and…I failed.

I guess I’ll be trying this again sometime soon. Either that, or there will be no photo in this years holiday cards.